Multicultureel feest bij opening Selimiyemoskee – Moskee Selimiye Haarlem Eindelijk is het dan zover; de Selimiyemoskee in het Reinaldapark wordt vandaag en morgen feestelijk geopend. Om met de woorden van oud-wethouder Jan Haverkort te spreken: ,,Het heeft bloed, zweet en tranen gekost, maar het is een gebouw om trots op te zijn.”Hetis een drukte van […]Continue Reading →
AFP: Egypt ‘monitoring attacks on Islam ahead of Dutch TV film’ CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt on Friday deplored what it called gratuitous attacks on Islam and said it was closely monitoring plans by a Dutch filmmaker to release an anti-Koran film.”It is regrettable that European lawmakers and politicians use gratuitous methods to gain electoral votes […]Continue Reading →
Women who are proponents of the headscarf distance themselves from secular models of feminist emancipation, writes Nilüfer Göle, but also seek autonomy from male interpretations of Islamic precepts. They represent a rupture of the frame both of secular female self-definitions and religious male prescriptions. They want to have access to secular education, follow new life […]Continue Reading →